{"id":20385,"date":"2026-03-22T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-paxton-lock-into-texas-senate-gop-runoff-still-seeking-trumps-nod\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:22:11","slug":"cornyn-paxton-lock-into-texas-senate-gop-runoff-still-seeking-trumps-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cornyn-paxton-lock-into-texas-senate-gop-runoff-still-seeking-trumps-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn, Paxton lock into Texas Senate GOP runoff still seeking Trump&#8217;s nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) are locked into their Senate primary runoff fight as they court President Trump&#8217;s coveted endorsement. Trump teased days after the rivals advanced to a runoff that he&rsquo;d back one candidate and ask the other to exit the race&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5794070-texas-senate-trump-endorsement-cornyn-paxton\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) are locked into their Senate primary runoff fight as they court President Trump&#8217;s coveted endorsement. Trump teased days after the rivals advanced to a runoff that he&rsquo;d back one candidate and ask the other to exit the race&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}